SO MINT! Be who you want to be by Yichen Dong

Simply brilliant at Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim

image credits: Veracruz Necklace Gold, platinum, amethyst, diamonds Jean Vendome (1930-2017) France, 1972 Courtesy of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Kimberly Klosterman Collection, Photo Tony Walsh

Artist-Jewellers of the 1960s and 1970s / 27.03 — 27.06.2021
In Cooperation with the Cincinnati Art Museum

Simply put, jewellery of the 1960s and ’70s was revolutionary. If the 1950s were demure and controlled, the 1960s became an era of youthful rebellion and radical cultural change -and a new style of jewellery was part of that zeitgeist. Rock ‘n’ roll, the Vietnam War, the Kennedy assassinations, the civil rights and women’s movements, the widespread use of hallucinogenic drugs, and the concept of free love are all associated with these tumultuous decades. From space-age plastic hoop earrings to the hippie’s beaded necklaces, jewellery expressed individuality, nonconformity and the aesthetic, political, and intellectual values of the person who wore it.

Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim
Jahnstraße 42
75173 Pforzheim

Opening hours
Tu-Su and holidays: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
www.schmuckmuseum.de

Judith Bloedjes • POETIC CERAMICS

Jewellery Exhibition at CODA Museum Apeldoorn / 28.02—20.06.2021

Monumental, round shapes of creamy white Limoges porcelain, framed by flattened silver. Judith Bloedjes’ jewellery and objects strike the spectator with their stilled, sober visual language and colours, and high artistic quality. Each piece of jewellery reflects her love of beauty, form, detail, craft and material. From 28 February to 20 June 2021, CODA Museum presents Judith Bloedjes’ jewellery in the exhibition Poetic Ceramics. A book of the same title accompanies the exhibition.

CODA Museum
Vosselmanstraat 299
7311 CL Apeldoorn

June 13, 2018

“Be who you want to be” is the motto that Yichen’s collection personifies. It is her personal response to a contemporary sense of identity. Such jewellery pieces as “I am a Ring” and “I Married an Ear” are powerful stereotypes of generic jewellery forms. Defying their original uses, they augment in shape and size, so as to confound our expectations. In the process, they become what they want to be.

Text by Selene Lee BA (Hons) Culture, Criticism and Curation

Model: @its_urfetish
Photographer：@some.lovely.filth
Stylist：@_grace_gao
Hair and Makeup：@yiyi_makeuphair

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